HOW TO VOTE: You can send your vote to me by email or as a comment on the blog (or as a comment to my Facebook link to this call for votes). If you want to vote by commenting but do not want your vote to appear on the blog, you just have to say so in your comment (I moderate all comments on my blog). If you want to vote anonymously, that's okay, but please choose some sort of pseudonym so I can keep track of different votes by anonymous voters. I will post comments as they come in.

Please make a final decision and vote for only one poem (although it is always interesting to see people's lists).

Please VOTE BY MONDAY, APRIL 5! But I will still accept votes as long as I have not posted the final results. (I'll be out of town for Easter, returning Easter Monday, hence the longer voting period than usual.)

Feel free to pass on this call for votes to anyone who might be interested!

Two interesting thoughts that came while reading this week's selections:1) "Your Family's Farm, Empty" is the poem "The Farm to Choose" was trying to be.2) I am still disturbed by "vulgar" words (such as "shit") in poetry, even though they are part of the common language & thus *should* be part of a poem, there is something about them that still draws me out of the imagery. I think that's just me, though.